{"id":316416,"date":"2020-01-24T13:07:45","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T07:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=316416"},"modified":"2020-01-24T13:07:45","modified_gmt":"2020-01-24T07:37:45","slug":"piyush-goyal-says-he-would-have-bought-air-india-if-he-could-calls-it-a-goldmine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/piyush-goyal-says-he-would-have-bought-air-india-if-he-could-calls-it-a-goldmine\/","title":{"rendered":"Piyush Goyal says he would have bought Air India, if he could; calls it a goldmine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even as the government desperately tries to sell debt-laden Air India, union minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday said that a well-managed and efficient airline is nothing short of a goldmine. \u201cIf I were not minister today, I would be bidding for Air India,\u201d union commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal also told CNBC TV-18. Air India\u2019s losses currently stand at around Rs 80,000 crore.  A few days back, civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri asked the disinvestment-bound national carrier to set up an internal mechanism committee comprising members from the management and its various trade unions to sort out privatisation-related issues of employees, news agency PTI recently reported citing unidentified sources. Earlier in 2018, the Modi government proposed to offload 76 per cent in the debt-struck national carrier, while retaining 24 percent with it. However, it didn\u2019t get any bidders for the same.<\/p>\n<p>On January 7, a group of ministers headed by union home Minister Amit Shah approved the draft EoI and Share Purchase Agreement (SPA) for the disinvestment of Air India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even as the government desperately tries to sell debt-laden Air India, union minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday said that a well-managed and efficient airline is nothing short of a goldmine. \u201cIf I were not minister today, I would be bidding for Air India,\u201d union commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal also told CNBC TV-18. Air India\u2019s losses currently stand at around Rs 80,000 crore. A few days back, civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri asked the disinvestment-bound national carrier to set up an internal mechanism committee comprising members from the management and its various trade unions to sort out privatisation-related [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,130,138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}